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What Nonprofits Can Teach About Economic Stimulus Packages
As all nonprofit people know, some types of charitable giving have a higher impact on the sector — and on our contributions to society — than others. And it just so happens that different approaches to the economic stimulus package are different in s …
In the Swirling Dust of Change, Life Still Goes On for an ED
It just makes sense that the founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling would tell his own story in a remarkably compelling way. Here’s Joe Lambert with a thoughtful First Person Nonprofit account of how organizational problems can bring out …
Word on the Street: Olympic Runners and the Internet
What’s new is that there’s a big online running community now. The Internet increases involvement by [track and field] athletes nationally and on an international scale: mutual support between professional athletes and community running groups occurs. …
Announcing the Just Awards
Nominations are coming in for the Just Awards! We are very pleased to be co-sponsoring this new prestigious, nonprofit sector award series created jointly by Blue Avocado and Nonprofit Online News. The first “Justie” will be awarded to a foundatio …
3-Minute Vacation: Most Beloved Street Art of 2011
Take a 3-minute photo/video tour of 106 of the most imaginative, often provocative, and "How'd they do that?" street art in the world, as compiled by Street Art Utopia. View the gallery.
Disconnect Between Management and Impact . . . editor notes issue #79
Do you know an organization that is disorganized and crazy, but somehow manages to do important work? (Yes, we all do.)And do you also know of an organization that is perfectly organized, could check off every box on the management audit, yet is accomp …
The Truth, Even When Unpleasant, Can Always Be Explained: Nonprofit Pointers for Conduct in Court
In art, fiction may be the lie that reveals the truth, but in the courtroom, all that fiction ever reveals is culpability. And it never ends well. More than once in the past months, I’ve faced fiction in the courtroom. An employee of a nonprofit client …
Are We Nonprofits, Charities, or Just Awesome? Editor’s Notes 10.15.09
Some days it’s not clear which is worse: using the term "nonprofit" to define our sector, or debating what we should be called instead. A recurring complaint in the sector is that "we shouldn’t be defined by what we are not." And of …
Independence and Sacred Cows . . . Editor Notes Issue #48
Unexpectedly, so many people told us how “courageous” we are for daring to criticize funders and the press in last issue’s Just Awards for Narcissism in Philanthropy and Abominable Press Coverage of Nonprofits. What was really new was not that we cri …
Queries & Communiques for July 1, 2009
* Six Word Novel Contest: we asked in the last issue for submissions and offered a prize box of avocados . . . we didn't realize how many novelists there are out there! HOWEVER. Many, many of you wrote slogans, mission summaries or poems, rather th …
